From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:43:03 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:49:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Russian Design For A Disc-Shaped Plane - Hall


 >From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@privat.dk>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:50:31 +0200
 >Subject: Russian Design For A Disc-Shaped Plane

 >Source: The Voice Of Russia, science news,

 >http://www.vor.ru/science/science_eng.html

 >Stig

 >Design for a disc-shaped plane

 >The hit of an international investment fair in Vladivostok was a
 >project by an inventor from the Maritime Territory, Yuri
 >Bezrukov, to create a new aircraft that would transport up to 5
 >passengers, weigh 1200 kilograms and would be about six meters
 >in diameter.

 >Driven by two engines the aircraft will fly at an altitude of 4
 >kilometers at a speed of up to 700 kilometers per hour. And it
 >will be able to fly non-stop one thousand kilometers. The
 >machine is designed for vertical take-off and vertical landing.
 >But it will need dozens of times less fuel than the current
 >vertical take-off aircraft.

Powered, no doubt, by magic or wishful thinking. This sounds
like a re-run of the high performance PR 1955 version of the
AVRO disc which, of course, never got beyond ground effect (i.e,
never really got off the ground).

  - Dick